SATERN Visits SEKARC

Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network was our guest today at the January meeting of SEKARC! Henry WØIR and Anna WØAJM Monton from Wichita, and Steve Lester KDØEKS and Mike Asselta KDØCDQ from the Kansas City area gave the group an informative presentation and tour of the Communication Vehicle. Loren KDØRTX and I KAØEGE are fairly new members of SATERN and a few at the meeting either signed up or expressed interest in the organization.

Meeting Reminder Sat Jan 31

REMINDER - SEKARC Meeting Sat Jan 31 @ 9am

We will have a special visitor coming down from Kansas City for our meeting. The Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network or SATERN will be bringing down their newly revamped Communication Vehicle for the club to look at. Some of us are involved with the group and you can learn more and possibly find out how you can get involved!

Last year we had the Kansas RACES group visit and speak to us, and we are reaching out to ARES. SATERN is another option for those operators that would like to get in community service. So stop by, check out the radio truck! One new tradition is that we will start with the Pledge of Allegience! We are lucky to be living in the United States of America! We will be discussing some of our plans for upcoming meetings and overall plans for 2015.

Like past meetings we will have coffee, donuts and new this month... we are fixing up an egg/cheese/sausage/hashbrown casserole... so there will be plenty to eat! And the price is better than Hardee's!

NEW YEAR for SEKARC - 2015 !!

Happy New Year... Welcome to 2015 !!

2015 should be a great year for the SEKARC as we have plans for many new activities and better meeting content with our new meeting facility and it will be exciting. Here is a summary of some of the thoughts we have on our agenda for 2015.

The first item on our list is a local CW practice night. Many in the club and the SEK area are learning CW or need a brush up so David NØWKZ suggested a local CW net or similar weekly activity. At the coffee QSO Jack WDØCFH mentioned maybe not an organized net but maybe an hour set aside each week for local CW practice sessions. Look for info on these to be announced very soon! Any suggestions for a night and time?

To begin with, the January meeting on 1/31/15 will feature the Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network ( SATERN ) communication vehicle from Kansas City.  We will get a look around the truck and discuss what SATERN does and how we can get involved. Here is a link to the national webpage SATERN.

March, or the the first sign of warm Wednesday weather we will head to a park after the Coffee QSO for some field work! This is always fun and this year we will be trying new locations for our Wed park days so stay tuned for that.